Forms

This chapter introduces web forms, a method of sending information from the browser to a web server. We will start by introducing forms in general and discussing how data is encoded to be sent to the server.

So far, the views we have been building for Django have been one-way only. Our browser is retrieving data from the views we have written, but it doesn’t send any data back to them. In Chapter 4, An Introduction to Django Admin, we created model instances by using the Django admin and submitting forms, but those were using views built into Django, not created by us. In this chapter, we will use the Django Forms library to start accepting user-submitted data. The data will be provided through GET requests in the URL parameters and/or POST requests in the body of the request. But before we get into the details, first, let’s understand what forms are in Django. You’ll learn about the differences between sending form data in a GET HTTP request and sending...